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HpBLLYTLE. COMBINED PAUQET AND VENT. No. 317.466. r Patented May 5, 1885.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. LYTLE, OF \VEBBS MILLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WVARREN \V. QUACKENBUSH.

COMBINED FAUCET AND VENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,466, dated May 5, 1885. Application filed August 8, 1884. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may cancer/1,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY B. LYTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Webbs Mills, in the county of Chemun g and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Faucet and Vent; and 1 do declare the following to be a l full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a combined faucet and vent having for its object the provision of means whereby air may be supplied to a cask containing beer or other liquid by the turning of the plug of the faucet in order to prevent a vacuum forming in said cask, and to thereby maintain sufficient pressure of air within the cask to cause the liquid to flow freely and readily when said faucet is opened; 1 and the invention consists in the construction, l combination, and arrangement of parts, sub' stantially as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is an end elevation of a L cask with my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the spigot and faui cet. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the faucet; and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 0000 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, in which like lotters of reference indicate like parts, A designates a cask containing beer or other fermented or effervescent liquid, into the end or head of which, and in communication with the liquid contained therein,is driven a spigot, B, of ordinary construction, having a faucet, G, secured at the outer end thereof, as shown in i Fig. 2.

In the drawingsl have shown the faucet as applied to the spigot B; but it will be understood that I do not limit myself to this particular construction, as the said faucet may be applied directly to the cask.

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adapted to receive the plug 0 and two outwardly-projecting hollow arms, 0 0 one of which, 0 is screw-threaded and adapted to be screwed into the spigot. The lower end of the 5 5 body 0 of the faucet is provided with an aperture, e, and a tube, 0 The plug G is provided with a handle, (I, and at its lower end with an exit port, d through which the liquid passes to the arm 0 and apertures or ports d 6 5 d which are arranged below the exitport d at right angles to each other and meet or communicate at about the middle of the plug 0 as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

D designates a flexible tube of rubber or 6 other suitable material, one end of which is connected to the tube 0 of the faucet, and the other end to a pet cock, E, having a valve, 0, secured to the cask at the top thereof and in communication with the air-space therein.

The operation of my invention is as follows When it is desired to draw the liquid from the cask or barrel, the plug is turned so as to cause the exit port (1 to register with the passage in the arm 0 of the shell. When the plug is in 7 5 this position, the ports d d register with the aperture 0 and tube 0 respectively, of the shell, whereby, when the valve of the pet cock is open, air is allowed to flow into the cask in such quantities as to prevent a vacuum form- So ing therein and to maintain sufficient pressure to cause the liquid to freely and readily flow.

It will be observed that when the pressure of the air in the cask exceeds that of ordinary 8 atmospheric pressure it will be permitted to escape when the pet cock and faucet are open; and it will be further observed that when it is desired to draw the liquid from the cask without admitting air it is only necessary to close the valve of the pet-cock and it will befurther observed that by turning the handle of the faucet so that the exit-port only is in use, and the air-ports are closed, withthe pet cock open, the liquid will flow out if a sufficient pressure 9 5 of gases or head exists without admitting air or permitting gases to escape, and that at all when using this combined faucet and The faucet G is composed of the shell 0' vent, the liquid will begin to run before the and the plug G The shell 0 is composed of air can get in or gase a body portion, 0, having an opening, 0, exbe shut off and gases prevented from escap.

before the liquid w ll cease running.

tending entirely through the same, which is ing s escape, and the air will we I am aware that a faucet has been heretofore made in which the plug has an axial bore open at its smaller end, and having a transverse bore formed in the plug within the iuclosing shellor case thereof. This construction is objectionable for the following reasons, viz: the axial bore extending through the male screw at the lower end of the plug serves to weaken the sides thereof, rendering it lia ble to yield laterally under the amount of pressure necessary to hold the plug in proper position in the shell and. prevent leakage;

I am also aware that faucets have been made having a longitudinal bore parallel with the axis of the plug formed near the periphery or surface of the plug. This form of construction is objectionable, because it weakens the plug, since the side thereof opposite the bore named is of necessity thin, and therefore liable to yield under pressure which the plug is slilibjlected to when in position in the inclosings el I am also aware that faucets have been made, the plugs of which have been provided with transverse air-ports or bores extending from side to side thereof and registering with apertures formed in the shell at opposite ends thereof. This form is also objectionable, since said transverse poi-ts always admit air to the cask whenever the plug is turned, although at times it is desirable to draw from a cask without admitting air thereto.

It will be understood that each of the above described forms of air-portsviz., axial, longitudinal, and transverse-have contemplated the admission of air to a cask.

In contradistinction to the above my invention contemplates the provision of a plug having a bore extending from its surface to its axial center and there opening into the end of a second similar bore located in the plug in the same transverse plane and at right angles to the first, (see Fig. 4,) the combined bores forming a continuous passage through the plug and shell when the plug is turned in but one direction.

said shell, thereby avoiding all objections incident to plugs having axial or longitudinal bores, as above set forth. The air-port of in y i plug may or may not register with the apertures in the shell, thus enabling the operator to admit or exclude air'from said cask while i drawing liquids therefrom. l Modifications in details of construction may i be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of my invention; and I would, therefore, have it understood that I reserve the right to make such alterations as fairly fall within the scope of my invention,

the essential features of which will be under- I stood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings. What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. In a combined faucet and vent, a shell provided with liquid entrance and exit ports E and air-ports, the longitudinal axes of which are at right angles to each other, in combination with a plug having a transverse liquidexit port, 0, and air-ports d (1 having their longitudinal axes at right angles to each other the plug, substantially as described.

2. In a combined faucet and vent, a shell i having liquid entrance and exit ports andairi ports 0 0 the longitudinal axes of which are at right angles to each other, plug c having liquid-exit port, and air-ports d d situated 5 in the same transverse plane thereof andfat' right angles to each other, in combination with the spigot B, flexible tube D, and pet cock E, I as and for the purpose set forth. I In testimony whereof I affixmy signature I in presence of two witnesses.

-HENRY B. LYTLE.

Witnesses CASSIUS A. PHILLIPS, EDWARD (J. VAN'DUZER.

their ends presented to the inner surface of and situated in the same transverse plane of 

